here i want to thank anthony franze especially for coming up with the idea and recruiting this wonderful panel on authors. really looking forward to hearing about books i will actually want to read. not mocking law articles or briefs but it is starting to get old so i am looking forward to hearing what these folks have come up with. we have tony mauro here to led the discussion. we has been covering the -- he -- supreme court for about 36 years and there is no one who would be better able to lead the panel. >> thank you very much for hosting this and thanks also to anthony for organizing it. i hope it will be a fun event. it always is when you talk about supreme court books it is kind of a genre that keeps growing in literature, fiction and non-fiction, we had a panel like this three years ago and it really was intended to celebrate the fact that the supreme court seems to be the subject of more and more books of all kinds, and judging by the corner of my desk where i stack books about the court that have come in from publishers the genre only increased since the last of it. we thought w